Journalism and Truth - Strange Bedfellows

Klappentext Looking at how journalism has changed over time, this book explores how the long-standing and untrustworthy conventions developed. It examines why reliable standards of objectivity and accuracy are critical not just to a free press but to the democratic society it informs and serves. It offers an account of how journalism and truth work. Zusammenfassung Looking at how journalism has changed over time! this book explores how the long-standing and untrustworthy conventions developed. It examines why reliable standards of objectivity and accuracy are critical not just to a free press but to the democratic society it informs and serves. It offers an account of how journalism and truth work.

Info autore

Tom Goldstein is a professor of journalism and mass communications and director of the Mass Communications Program at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of The News at Any Cost (Touchstone, 1986), co-author of The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well (California, 2002), and A Two-Faced Press (Twentieth Century Fund, 1986) and the editor of Killing the Messenger: 100 Years of Media Criticism (Columbia, 1991). Howard Baker is a former U.S. Senator, Presidential Chief of Staff, and U.S. Ambassador as well as former vice chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee. He is also the author of No Margin for Error: America in the Eighties (Times Books,1980), Howard Baker's Washington: An Intimate Portrait of the Nation's Capital City (Norton, 1984), and Scott's Gulf (Bridgestone/Firestone, 2000).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Tom Goldstein, Tom/ Baker Goldstein
• Editore: Northwestern University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.08.2007
• EAN: 9780810124332
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2433-2
• Pagine: 256
• Dimensioni: 127 mm x 197 mm x 13 mm
• Serie: Medill School of Journalism Visions of the American Press; Visions of the American Press; Medill School of Journalism Vi; Medill School of Journalism Visions of the American Press; Visions of the American Press
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Società; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Media, comunicazione > Giornalismo